11Many Russian studies programs have engendered serious academic ignorance – regarding Ukraine and its neighbours: Tomasz Kamusella, New Eastern Europe, August 11, 2023October 2, 2023/1 Comment/in Commentary, Language usage, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
12Reading series of plays-in-translation features some of the best of Ukraine’s theatre, created since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion – Stratford Festival, Sept. 23-24, 2023September 29, 2023/1 Comment/in Commentary, Language usage, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
13America is more open to an authoritarian form of government than Canada – because the American Constitution has never been as awesome as it has been made out to beSeptember 12, 2023/4 Comments/in Commentary, Language usage, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
14April 21, 2023 New York Times article is a good-news story about bullying because it underlines that it’s possible to address bullying head-onApril 21, 2023/3 Comments/in Bullying, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
15Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics (2023) is among many books I’ve read about the topicDecember 12, 2022/0 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
16Three authors with an in-depth, well-documented, balanced view of things: Haberman (2022); Galeotti (2022); O’Kane (2022)December 6, 2022/3 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
17Ordinary People as Mass Murderers: Perpetrators in Comparative Perspective (2008)December 26, 2021/6 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
18On Sept. 2, 2021, we met for a high school picnic at an apartment parking lot with a great view of Lake Ontario. We learned how Bois-de-Saraguay in Montreal was saved from destruction.October 19, 2021/12 Comments/in Commentary, Committee of Adjustment, Toronto Local Appeal Body, Local Planning Appeals Tribunal, Language usage, Long Branch, MCHS Stories, Mississauga, Newsletter, Southwestern Ontario, Stratford, Toronto/by Jaan Pill
19From the Toronto Public Library website, you can access Erving Goffman’s 1982 presidential address to the American Sociological AssociationAugust 6, 2021/0 Comments/in Commentary, Language usage, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
20A small measure of ease in the presence of uncertainty goes a long wayJanuary 3, 2020/0 Comments/in Commentary, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill